Praise your good fortune, blessed Saxony,since God upholds the throne of your king.
Joyful land
thank heaven and kiss the hand
which from day to day makes your prosperity increase
and establishes your citizens in safety.

How can we, most mighty Augustus,
the unfeigned impulse
of our respect, loyalty and love
for you in any other way but with the greatest delight
lay before your feet.
Is it not through your fatherly hand
that on our land
the blesssing of heavenís mercy
flows in rich streams?
And does not our hope come true,
that to give us peace we shall
in your grace, in your character
read the image of your great father and his deeds?

What else has moved you, Sarmatia,
so that for your royal throne
the Saxon Piast,
the worthy son of great Augustus,
you have preferred before all others ?
Not only the magnificence of his illustrious ancestors,
not the might of his lands,
No! but the splendour of his own virtue
drew all your subjects
and the minds of such different people
rather him alone
than his familyís magnificence and his inherited glory
to worship on bended knees.
Indeed envy and jealousy,
which unfortunately spare the gold of crowns
less often than they spare lead and iron,
are still enraged against you, o great king!,
and have cursed your welfare.
But their curse is changed to a blessing
and their rage
is really far too weak
to disturb in the least a good fortune
that rests on rock.

Rage on, presumptuous swarm,
in your own bowels!
Go and wash your impudent arm
full of rage
in the innocent blood of your brothers,
to our abhorrence, to your own harm!
For the poison
and the fury of your envy
hurts you more than Augustus.

Yes indeed!
God is still close to us with his help
and protects the throne of Augustus.
He brings it about that the whole north
through his choice of king has become content.
Will not the Baltic soon
because of the conquest of the mouth of the Vistula
be made aware of Augustusí kingdon
along
with his weapons ?
And does he not permit that town
that opposed him for so long
to experience his grace rather than his wrath?
This means that it is his delight
the hearts of his subjects
to bind through love rather than force.

Therefore grant, o dear father of your country,
that by our band of Muses
this day , which has been so fortunate for you,
on which a year ago
the Sarmatians chose you for their king,
in their innocent peace
may be honoured and celebrated in song.

At a time
when all around us there are lightning and crashes,
indeed when the might of the French
(which so many times already has been subdued)
from north and south
threatens our fatherland with fire and sword,
this city can be so fortunate
that you, the mighty protective deity of our linden trees,
and indeed not you alone
but also your wife, the sunshine of our country,
the comfort and delight of your subjects,
are found in its bosom.

Founder of empires, lord of crowns,
build up the throne, which Augustus occupies.
Adorn his house
with imperishable prosperity
Grant that we may dwell in peace in the lands
which he protects with his justice and grace.